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Showing 1 to 20 of 328 for “"outsiders"”.
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OUTSIDERS IN FAMILY FIRMS: A PERSPECTIVE FROM FINANCING DECISION
I investigate how the presence of outsiders in the senior management team is related to the financing decision of Chinese listed family firms. For a sample of listed family firms from 2008 to 2017, I find that family firms with more outsiders in their senior management team (including the CEO, vice …
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Silent Outsiders: Searching For Queer Identity In Composition Readers
This study searches twenty composition readers' table of contents for the degree of inclusivity of queer people and issues. Four means of erasure are labeled as possible erasing of queer identity: presuming heteronormativity, overt homophobia, perpetuating tokenism, and pathologizing queer …
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Men on the margin: onscreen outsiders and American masculinity
The central purpose of this thesis is to examine ideas of solitude and alienation as they relate to the masculine identity of men - particularly American men as represented in Hollywood films. The subjects include several outsider characters from history and fiction, which are divided into two …
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Triple Outsiders: Gender and Ethnic Identity Among Asian Indian Immigrants
This study uses literature on identity work to examine the gender similarities and differences in the ethnic identity work that Asian Indian immigrants to the United States do. It also looks at the changes Indian immigrants' understanding of themselves as Indian men/women due to migration. …
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Solidarity with outsiders: The quest for common ground in theological ethics
… Descriptions of relationships with world and outsiders prepare or deny the possibility of solidarity with them. Communities open themselves to challenge by outside voices or obstruct it with witness to truthful viewpoints which must be true for everyone. Separation of claims for truthfulness …
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Ethnic boundaries redefined: The emergence of the "Permanent outsiders" in Singapore
… non-CMIO a??ethnic Othersa?? or the a??permanent outsidersa?? in Singapore society. This study calls for a new interpretation of the construction of ethnicity by including a??permanent outsidersa??, mainly foreign guest-workers and expatriates, into a more comprehensive analysis on Singaporea??s …
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Insiders and outsiders : nuclear arms control experts in Cold War America
… in many interesting ways, both insiders and outsiders to the American "nuclear state." The dissertation begins by exploring the formation of strategic arms control in the years leading up to 1960, showing how arms control emerged from the mixing of local communities of disarmament advocates …
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Inside job? How cultural outsiders write, translate, and read cross-‐cultural crime fiction
… opinions about a culture; not only do cultural outsiders change their opinions about a country based on a novel set there, but fiction even changes some prior beliefs of cultural insiders away from correct to incorrect positions. Approaches from cognitive literary studies illuminate both the …
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Independent Visions of Marginal America: Reimagining a Nation Through Outsiders, Searching, and Non-Arrival
<p>This thesis explores critical responses to American-ness, American identity, and most significantly American myth, in independent films about America in cultural terms, and their attempts to deconstruct the myths of nation and culture. The independent films about America analyzed in this thesis …
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Citizen Outsiders: How the Struggles of Romanian Roma in London Challenge the Conception of Citizenship
… and makes them into what I refer to as ‘citizen outsiders’. Second, I draw on critical perspectives on citizenship and ethnographic methods to examine how Romanian Roma in an East London borough, who are discursively constituted as lacking capacities to act as citizens, contest the ways they are …
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Insiders and Outsiders: Global Social Movements, Party Politics, and Democracy in Europe and North America
… protest events' success in uniting insiders and outsiders; and coupling of insider and outsider tactics such as protesting and voting. Insider-outsider cooperation in protest coalitions helps to facilitate successful protest events involving rainbow coalitions of insiders and outsiders. Such …
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<em>¡¿Y Que?!</em>: Punks, Goths, and Musical Outsiders in Latinx Literature and Popular Culture
<p>¡¿Y Que?! investigates Latinx characters in literature and popular culture who participate in rock music subcultures as a resistive tool for navigating the intercultural experiences of Latinxs living in the U.S. and beyond. Subcultures like punk, goth, and Morrissey fandom are zones of contact …
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Outsiders, Impostors, and Equals: A Quantitative Study of Workplace Ostracism, Impostor Phenomenon, and Perceptions of Fair Treatment
The purpose of this dissertation-in-practice was to understand the relationship between the workplace cultural factors of fair treatment and ostracism, and non-profit employees’ personal experiences of impostor phenomenon (IP). This quantitative study aimed to provide non-profit sector leaders with …
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Outsiders in a distant land : a case study of ten Islamic Lebanese families and their views on citizenship
This thesis is concerned with issues of ethnicity, identity and citizenship. In particular, it focuses on the views of Islamic Sunni Lebanese families on the issue of citizenship as a notion of rights and participation. The key question which the thesis addresses is, in what ways can universal …
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Outsiders within : a phenomenological qualitative study of how Black female faculty navigate race and gender in predominately White institutions.
The purpose of this study was to obtain greater insight into the experiences of Black women who work as full-time faculty at two and four-year colleges and universities. This phenomenological qualitative study investigated the formal and informal interactions that full-time Black female faculty …
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"Then Came the Peaceful Invasion of the Northerners": The Impact of Outsiders On Plantation Architecture in Georgetown County, South Carolina
… brought to the community. However, these outsiders were never truly welcome, as locals railed against their use of the land and their perceived disrespect for local culture. Although this movement ended long ago, the impact Northerners had in Georgetown County endures through the …
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